Sunday, September 21, 2014

Glyndebourne's La finta Giardiniera broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Gyula Orendt

BBC 3 radio will broadcast Mozart's La finta Giardiniera on their initial Opera on 3 offering on Monday, September 22 at 7:15 PM GMT/2:15 PM EST. The performance is from this summer's Glyndebourne Festival and includes barihunk Gyula Orendt as Nardo and hunkentenor Joel Prieto as Count Belfiore with the Age of
Enlightenment Orchestra conducted by Robin
Ticciati.

Written when he was only eighteen, Mozart comic opera
La finta Giardiniera on Goldoni's is based on the play Pamela nubile. The story follows seven characters in search of
love, involving disguise, and recognition of both identities and
emotions - trying to discover what is real and what is 'finta'.

Gyula Orendt sings Gounod's "Queen of Love":

Martin Handley presents, and during the interval discusses the
opera with Mozart specialist Professor Cliff Eisen. You can tune in HERE.

Gyula Orendt, who is of Hungarian-Romanian descent, studied singing at the
Transilvania Music University in Brasov, Romania, and
completed his studies at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt in Budapest,
where he was also trained as a singing teacher. He won at the Francisco Viñas
Competition in Barcelona the Mozart Prize and the prize for oratorio/lieder.

Since 2013, he has been a member of the Berlin State Opera, where his roles since have included Silvano in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Papageno, Figaro in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cesare Angelotti in Puccini's Tosca and Tempo/Consiglio in Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo. He made his Royal Opera debut in 2012 singing the Gamekeeper in Dvorak's Rusalka. He returns to London this season to sing the title role in Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Roundhouse.

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